Approved pending number assignment
Next, the submissions received by the Journal de Ciencias Sociales that were approved and are awaiting number assignment.
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Empowering youth in care: the case of emancipatory research with care leavers
Caterina Arciprete
Mario Biggeri
Irene Fattacciu
Scientific article
Abstract: New sociology of childhood has emphasized that children are capable of being reflective, of behaving purposively and are able to influence the environment where they live. This concept is also referred to as ‘children as capable agents’ meaning that they can shape the environment. Despite this, children are rarely given the space for participation. The lack of participation is particularly evident within the child protection system, where the tension between children's right to protection and their right to participation becomes even more pronounced. Preventing them from participation is not only a violation of rights but also impacts their capability to exercise social citizenship. This can be particularly detrimental for care leavers who rank among the most socially excluded and disadvantaged groups of young people. This article addresses these issues by presenting the findings of the action-research project CarINg (Empowering Childcare Systems and Supporting Leaving Care from Inside), implemented in Italy and co-funded by the European Union. This research delved into the participation opportunities for care leavers within the care system, with a dual focus on enhancing the local alternative care system and empowering care leavers to actively voice and influence the status quo. Results show how active involvement of care leavers in the protection system and in the production of knowledge can empower them as individuals and enable them to contribute to bringing about change within the alternative care system. Whether all these changes happen depends on the capacity of the institutions to recognize that children are authentic agents and participants of the society.
Keywords: care leavers; child protection; emancipatory research; Italy.
Do adolescents adapt their subjective well-being to multidimensional poverty situations? A longitudinal study using data from a middle-income country
Jhonatan Clausen
Nicolas Barrantes
Paulo Matos
Scientific article
Abstract: We explore subjective well-being adaptation to multidimensional poverty relying on a panel database of adolescents in Peru, a middle-income country. Using data from four waves of the Young Lives project database, collected in 2002, 2006, 2009 and 2013, we evaluate to what extent Peruvian adolescents living in multidimensional poverty adapt their life-as-a-whole subjective self-evaluation to situations of multiple joint deprivations. We measure adolescents’ subjective well-being using a Cantril scale, whereas we measure multidimensional poverty using a metric which includes nine indicators of deprivation. Overall, we find that individuals who experience a larger number of deprivations present lower levels of subjective well-being, and that individuals who leave poverty from one period to another present higher levels of subjective well-being than those who remain poor in two consecutive periods. This shows that the adolescents included in the sample we use do not adapt their life-as-a-whole subjective self-evaluations to the situations of multidimensional deprivation they face. This finding is consistent with the results of similar research conducted in other Latin American countries such as Chile and Uruguay. In addition, we use a wealth index that reflects living conditions in three dimensions, and we find that those who fall into poverty from one period to another have lower levels of well-being than those who remain poor in two periods in a row. This could reflect some degree of adaptation in those who experience deprivations that last over time. Our study is the first to explore the adaptation of subjective well-being to multidimensional poverty, understood in a comprehensive way, in a middle-income country using longitudinal data.
Keywords: adaptation; subjective wellbeing; multidimensional poverty; middle-income country.
Review of the book Social Justice for Children in the South, edited by Graciela Tonon
Claudia Andrea Petrone
Book review
Abstract: Starting from the various theoretical developments and research results in South America, Africa and Europe, this book analyzes the participation of children and adolescents in Southern countries and its correlation with the achievement of social justice. Taking the capabilities approach as a framework, it is argued that children and adolescents have agency, so they can make decisions regarding the things they value and act, jointly, with other agents to expand the set of collective capabilities, in pursuit of the achievement of justice and dignity for all. The authors seek, throughout the book, for their arguments to impact public policies and open new frontiers for research on the agency, empowerment and participation of children, and the research methods that involve them.
Ascription and indigenous languages in Argentina (2010-2018): a territorial approach from statistical surveys
Pablo De Grande
Fernando Longhi
Scientific article
Abstract: The measurement of indigenous ethnicity -and in particular the presence of an indigenous cultural legacy- was a largely overlooked concern throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th century. Towards the end of the latter, indigenous subjects have gained visibility and attention from state agencies. Consequently, and in line with similar processes in the rest of Latin America, there has been an intensification in the demand for public statistics to account for the size and characterization of indigenous peoples in Argentina. In this context, in the 2001 Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas, a question on indigenous self-identification have been incorporated, but not the use indigenous languages in the overall population. In this paper, we examine the statistical relationships between two criteria for identifying the cultural indigenous presence: self-identification (ascription) and speaking an indigenous language. We use microdata from the 2010 population census and from the national standardized exams Pruebas Aprender, conducted in primary schools in 2018. We find that statistically and spatially there is no uniform relationship between both dimensions. Furthermore, we identify evidence of the inadequacy of the question about ethnic self-identification due to the high percentage of ignored responses, as well as a notable presence of indigenous languages in the territory, with departments having more than 50% of households involved, and a national average above 10%. We reflect on these results and discuss them with the aim of accounting for the indigenous cultural presence (of various cultures) in different areas of our country, largely made invisible by public statistics and the one-dimensional, essentialist approach that has been given to multiculturality.
Keywords: indigenous adscription; indigenous languages; spatial analysis; alternative sources of information.
